Word: frugality
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...kings portrayed in your article have done at least as good a job as the 38 Presidents we've had since Washington was inaugurated and almost given the title of His Majesty the President. Besides, kings (and queens) are much more colorful, durable and economical than the most frugal Chief Executive...
Always a big spender when times were good (he once had four writers at work on four separate official histories of his young company), Fraser has turned uncharacteristically frugal of late. He has fired the gaggle of Harvard M.B.A.s who flocked to Hilton Head in the early 1970s. In order to reduce Sea Pines' towering debt, he has sold Palmas Del Mar-taking a $13 million loss -and deeded back to the lender the North Carolina tract where he planned to build the Nantahala/Heritage Park. He has also shelved plans for several smaller resorts where "almost any member...
Marcos is concerned about economic matters, but not very interested in them. He remains at heart a social revolutionary, a leader almost wistfully in search of what he calls "the internal revolution" in the nation's character. Over a frugal lunch of chicken and vegetables with Imelda and members of his Cabinet, Marcos explained what he wants of his countrymen. "I would like to return the Filipino to what he was before he was altered and modified by the softness of Western and other ways. I would like to see a change of heart and a change of mind...
Other states should have the Kansas problem: What to do with so much money? Even as New York's Governor Hugh Carey was trying to wring $1 billion in revenue measures out of his legislature to help wipe out a huge deficit, frugal Kansas was sitting on a budget surplus of $179 million. Now the state government is being badgered by all sorts of groups that want cuts from the pie. City governments are clamoring for some form of revenue sharing. Educators want more for schools. There are pleas that state taxes be lowered, even though they have...
...bulk of Rosovsky's report concerns the University's response concerns the University's response to "financial vicissitudes," predicting that "frugal management and vigorous fund-raising activity will enable us to bring our income and expenditures into balance...